Harvesting-machine.



No. 725,2'3. PATENTED APR. 14,. 1903. S. H. & J. H. BEILER. HARVESTING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION/FILED MAY 16. 1902.

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No. 725,023. PATENTED APR. 14, 1903. S. H. & J. H. BEILER. HARVESTINGMAGHINE.

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HARVESTlNG-VIACHINE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 725,023, dated April 14, 1903..

Application filed May 16, 1902.

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that we, SAMUEL l-l. BEILER and JOEL H. BEILER, citizens of the United States, residing at Vitmer, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l-larvesting-Machines; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention has relation to harvesting machines, and more particularly to an attachment for a reaper, whereby the nose or forward extension of the sickle-carrying frame will be reliably directed through the standing grain even though the same should become more or less lodged or tangled as the result of storm or other causes, the prime object being to straighten out a portion of the grain, whereby that part thereof which becomes severed by the sickle will not remain in entanglement with the portion left standing or untouched by the sickle.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter be made clearly apparent, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this application, and in Which- Figure lisa side elevation of our invention complete wit-h a portion in section, showing an end View of the platform of an ordinary reaper. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing one form of attachment for the link of a sprocket chain. Fig. 3 is a view showing another form of ourinvention from that presented in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the idler-pulley employed on the front end of the nose-section of the machine.

Theelements and coperating accessories of our invention will for convenience be designated by numerals, the same numeral referring to a similar part throughout the several views.

Seral No. 1071652. (No model.)

vided with suitable bearings in a contiguous portion of the end section 5 of the carryingframe. The gear 4t is attached to or forms an integral part of the sprocket-wheel 6, designed to cooperate with the sprocket-chain 7, which, as will be observed, also passes around the sprocket-wheel 8 and the grooved wheel 9.

The sprocket-wheel S is mounted in suitable bearings in the upper end of the standard 10, which is adj ustably secured to the end section 5 by means of the bolt 11 and the clamp l2, said bolt being designed to be moved in the longitudinally-disposed. slot 13,

formed in a contiguous part of the frame-section 5. The grooved carrying-wheel 9 is also mounted in suitable bearings upon the framesection 5, and it will be obvious that by a proper adjustment of the standard 10 the saidv sprocket-chain may be tightened or loosened, as desired. l

The sprocket-chain 7 is provided at suitable intervals with a series of outwardly-extending flngers 14, which are so carried by said chain that they will stand rigidly extended and will therefore reach into and comb out the tangled mass of grain and mark out a divisional line between the standing grain and that portion thereof which has been severed by the sickle, thereby enabling said severed portion to readily fall upon the platform of the harvester and not be dragged off of said platform by reason of its adherence to or entanglement with the standing grain, as will be obvious. It will therefore be ob- Yserved that the carrying-wheel 9 is properly located near the forward end of the nose-section 15, thereby insuring Vthat the plurality of finger-sections 14C will cooperate with said nose and clearly define a division-line between the severed and uncut portion of the grain.

In Fig. 3 it will be seen that we have provided a slightlvvaried form of construction to accomplish the adjustment of the sprocketchain, inasmuch as it will be observed that the sprocketwheel 16, which corresponds to the sprocket-wheel 8 in Fig. 1, is driven by the auxiliary sprocket 17, which latter is in turn driven by the sprocket 18, mounted in suitable bearings 19 and driven by the gear 20, which meshes with the gear 3 of the car- IOO rying-wheel l. The sprocket-wheel 16 is mounted in bearings in the pivoted frame 21,

, and the upper end of this section is pivotally connected to the link 22, the lower end of which is pivoted to the controlling-lever 23, having a handle 24 whereby said lever may be raised or lowered, and thereby elevate or lower the sprocket-wheel 16 and tighten or loosen the sprocketchain 7', which in this instance is disposed between the parallel members 25, only one of which is seen in Fig. 3.

Any suitable securing device, as the standard 26, designed to cooperate with the free end of the lever 23, may be provided to hold said lever in an adjusted position. While it will therefore be observed that various means may be provided for tightening and loosening the sprocket-chain 7', which is provided with a plurality of outwardly-disposed rigid fingers, as above set forth, we wish to comprehend such possible variations or substitutes and equivalents of construction and combination of parts as may be considered as falling fairly within the scope of our invention, and we do not wish to be confined strictly to the exact showing herein presented. It will be observed that we have provideda very simple, though reliably efficient, attachment 'for harvesting-machines, which will enable the machines to be easily driven through a what we claim as new, and desire to secure by I Letters Patent, is.-

The combination with the platform and the end section of the carrying-frame having a longitudinal slot, of a standard, a boltcarried by the standard and working in said slot, a clamp on said bolt, a grooved carrying-wheel mounted in bearings on the outer end of the frame-section near the forward end of the nose thereof, a sprocket-wheel carried by the upper end of said standard, a sprocket-wheel carried on the frame and receiving its motion from the carrying-wheel, and an endless chain passed around said sprocket-wheels and carrying-wheel and having a plurality of fingers cooperating with said nose to define a division between the severed and uncut portions of the grain.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL H. BEILER.

JOEL H. BEILER. Witnesses:

I. N. BUsHoNG, HENRY REssLE. 

